Stability of acoustic individuality in the alarm calls of wild yellow ground squirrels Spermophilus fulvus and contrasting calls from trapped and free-ranging callers

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 707-715

  Matrosova, Vera A ^a   Volodin, Ilya A ^a,b   Volodina, Elena V ^b   Vasilieva, Nina A ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Research Department   (Russian Federation)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Ground squirrel; Individual identity; Recording technique; Spermophilus fulvus; Vocal stability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALARM SIGNAL; BIOACOUSTICS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENCOUNTER RATE; HIBERNATION; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PREDATION; RODENT; TRAPPING; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; VOCALIZATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; INDIVIDUALITY; SCIURIDAE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS FULVUS; SPERMOPHILUS SUSLICUS;

EID: 77955515113     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0686-7     Document Type: Article

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